Brahms: Die schöne Magelone

Gert Westphal (sp); Peter Schreier (t),
Andras Schiff (pf)

Belvedere BCD08001

Caught live at
Mondsee in 1997,
Schreier is at his
autumnal best with
peerless legato and
a focused
commitment that is
matched in spades by Schiff. What will be
less appealing to non-German speakers is
the interpolation of linking poems Brahms
didn’t set: a CD player can of course be
programmed, but some speech is recorded
irrevocably over music.